tailieunhanh - Báo cáo sinh học: "Several aspects of Journal of Biology seem to have caught readers’ attention since issue 1 appeared this summer"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học Journal of Biology đề tài: Several aspects of Journal of Biology seem to have caught readers’ attention since issue 1 appeared this summer. | J. Biol. Journal of Biology 2 BioMed Central Editorial Published 8 November 2002 Journal of Biology 2002 1 6 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http content 1 2 6 2002 BioMed Central Ltd ISSN 1475-4924 Several aspects of Journal of Biology seem to have caught readers attention since issue 1 appeared this summer. Some of the questions asked have arisen sufficiently often to be worth addressing here. In summary the journal differs from other top-tier journals in four main ways. First and most importantly no fee will ever be charged to readers of the research articles and the authors retain full copyright so that the articles can be freely read and distributed by anyone from the day of publication onwards in perpetuity. This is the open access policy of all of the journals published by BioMed Central which is currently the only publisher that is wholly committed to the principles of openaccess publishing. Why is the immediate free use and distribution of the entire article so important Not only is it possible and desirable but it benefits both scientists and science restrictions on use and distribution serve publishers not scientists or readers. Open access also allows full archiving and retrieval. Extensive efforts are being made to create public archives of the scientific literature containing complete copies of all scientific papers. PubMed Central is one example of this and all research articles published in all BioMed Central journals are deposited there in full. In time these freely accessible archives will greatly facilitate the practice and dissemination of science and will lead to exciting and sophisticated ways of using full-text information much as GenBank has done for DNA sequences. The current restrictions on access use and distribution put in place by most journals -even those that offer copyright to authors while in fact denying them permission to distribute their article - will seriously .